Mobile Farmers: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Settlement Organization Among the Raramuri of Northwestern Mexico

by Martha Graham

Overview

This ethnoarchaeological study of the settlements of the Rarámuri focuses primarily on their mobility strategy. This group presents a case where the common equation of agriculturalists = sedentary, and hunter-gatherers = mobile is broken. The Rarámuri are agriculturalists with a pattern of mobility between two or more settlements during the course of any year. Graham provides not only a description of this unusual pattern of mobility by a farming group, but also a number of insights and suggestions on how archaeologists can detect a mobile lifestyle in the residential areas of prehistoric agriculturalists

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781879621169
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	12/01/1994
Series:	International Monographs in Prehistory: Ethnoarchaeology Series , #3
Pages:	113
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Martha Graham is an archaeologist with the National Park Service.

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